Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-28 Thread Gustin Johnson
HP loves to put cheap crap in their laptop, chances are you have a crappy broadcomm wifi adaptor. >From a command prompt, run the following (there are 3 seperate commands enclosed in quotes, you do not need the quotes): "lspci |grep -i net" "iwconfig" "lsmod |grep 80211" On my lenovo t430 with In

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-24 Thread Pete Wright
Hi Ralph This paragraph of yours (pasted below) really resonates with me, and I suggest you post it as a standalone to the whole Ubuntu community; the whole Linux community, for that matter. I actually treat myself as a noobie, because stuff keeps changing all the time. Everybody should remember t

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-24 Thread Lawrence H. Bulk
" FWIW don't you backup your Linux? I wouldn't make a new install, but restore from a backup." No, I never do. I wouldn't want to install from a backup as there might be some problems which I would be unable to identify and whatever caused my computer to stop working properly could happen again. I

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 14:38 -0400, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: > Sound? Whatever the problems are, there is a solution. No, on my machine I don't find a solution. Only 2 of 8 ADAT channels are available by jackd for my HDSPe AIO. I'm an experienced Linux audio user. To verify if I'm simply to stupid t

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Pete Wright
Don't know if this may make you feel better or just muddy the water further, but I have had similar problems with more than one HP laptop (including one mini) with only Windows installed. In fact the first time I used Linux for work was during a desperate effort to revive the WiFi on an HP lap. (Li

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Ross Hamblin
On 24/07/13 01:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:10 -0400, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: >> EVERYTHING in Linux is simple once you know the answer! > > So if the answer to "why can't LINUX use my hardware" is, that there is > no driver available, then it's simple to solve? Simply write

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Abhayadev S
the same here also... my wife had some experience (good or bad i dont know) with Windows and she is in Linux ever since she joined me and she is doing well too... @OP, did you get the 'dmesg' ? Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Lawren

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Lawrence H. Bulk
I can only say that my wife and I have been using Linux for over 5 years now and I personally have tried 7 or 8 different distributions (including RPM ones). Currently my wife and I are using Xubuntu on our main computers (ZaReason Strata 7330s), Ubuntu Studio on two older computers (Acer Extensa 5

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:13 -0500, David Power wrote: > If I may add a small asterisk to your comments re. learning Linux. I > have several friends who need help with their computers. They have > been converted to Ubuntu because it takes a lot less of my time and > effort to support them on Linu

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread David Power
.  Dave Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone Original message From: Ralf Mardorf Date: 07/23/2013 09:00 (GMT-06:00) To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:14 +0530, Abhayadev S

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:14 +0530, Abhayadev S wrote: >>To use Linux needs lot of knowhow and you need to refresh this >>knowhow each day. > > > > Yes thats correct... Thank you for confirming this. Don't get me wrong. It's not negative. The self-responsibility and FLOSS approach has advantage

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Abhayadev S
>>To use Linux needs lot of knowhow and you need to refresh this knowhow >>each day. Yes thats correct... Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:10 -0400, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: > > EVERYTHIN

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 15:31 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > To set up professional Linux environments does mean that you have to > figure out things again and again, to pay much money etc., sure once you > know the answer, then you know the answer, but for 1 answer you get, 2 > new answers will appear

OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:10 -0400, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: > EVERYTHING in Linux is simple once you know the answer! So if the answer to "why can't LINUX use my hardware" is, that there is no driver available, then it's simple to solve? Simply write a driver yourself or simply pay money to get har

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Lawrence H. Bulk
If you cannot go into the top panel to ensure that is activated, and function keys do not work, then go into the Settings Manager->Users and Groups->Advanced Settings (enter computer's password)->User Privileges. Check each and every option and then accept. (If you do not see an Apply or Accept bu

Re: Too funny for words - [Fwd: Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA]

2013-07-22 Thread Leonardo Palomares
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ** > Congratulations, HTML + a superb mix of different quoting stiles + > duplicated signatures, there's nothing missing, that makes this thread > unreadable, so that it becomes nearly impossible to help, but it's a nice > example why it make

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:15 -0700, Leonardo Palomares wrote: > go to terminal and run this command: > lspci -nn > > > then let us know the result of any network adapter listed there. FWIW does ifconfig show anything useful? -- Attention! Attackers have gotten every user's local username, pas

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Leonardo Palomares
go to terminal and run this command: lspci -nn then let us know the result of any network adapter listed there. Leo -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
Unfortunately, I don't even have the option to activate wifi in my network options. I've tried manually creating one but no luck there. Any thoughts? On 2013-07-22 6:08 PM, "Lawrence H. Bulk" wrote: > I should also mention that you should go to the top panel and open the > network connection ic

Too funny for words - [Fwd: Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA]

2013-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
of emails. Forwarded Message From: Lawrence H. Bulk Reply-to: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion Subject: Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:51:40 -0400 Did you hold down the Fn key at the same time y

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Lawrence H. Bulk
I should also mention that you should go to the top panel and open the network connection icon. Make sure that is activated. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > On 13-07-22 09:35 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: > > It is possible that your netbook has a (may be F11) > combina

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Lawrence H. Bulk
Did you hold down the Fn key at the same time you pressed the function key(s)? On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > On 13-07-22 09:35 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: > > It is possible that your netbook has a (may be F11) > combination necessary to activate its Wi-Fi; both of m

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 08:44 -0300, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "dmesg" Run dmesg or search for something by running dmesg | grep "foo" Perhaps dmesg | grep "Modules linked in" or something similar. -- Attention! Attackers have gotten every user's local username, passwo

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
On 13-07-22 09:35 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: It is possible that your netbook has a (may be F11) combination necessary to activate its Wi-Fi; both of my netbooks do. Try looking it up for your particular netbook or just try all the combinations to see if one works. Also make certain that your

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Lawrence H. Bulk
It is possible that your netbook has a (may be F11) combination necessary to activate its Wi-Fi; both of my netbooks do. Try looking it up for your particular netbook or just try all the combinations to see if one works. Also make certain that your BIOS is set to its default settings. Hope that h

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
On 13-07-22 09:09 AM, Abhayadev S wrote: d o you use Ubuntu Studio for creative works? or do you want to try out ubuntu desktop with some different desktop env. instead? Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ryan Thompson mailto:ryand

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Abhayadev S
d ​o you use Ubuntu Studio for creative works? or do you want to try out ubuntu desktop​ with some different desktop env. instead? Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > On 13-07-22 08:51 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > >>

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
On 13-07-22 08:51 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: Hi. I'm the maintainer of linux-lowlatency. It's not a realtime kernel, and has all the drivers that linux-generic does, so it's not a kernel problem. Besides, you can use any kernel on any flavor. Ubuntu Studio is very much just Ubuntu with a certain se

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Hi. I'm the maintainer of linux-lowlatency. It's not a realtime kernel, and has all the drivers that linux-generic does, so it's not a kernel problem. Besides, you can use any kernel on any flavor. Ubuntu Studio is very much just Ubuntu with a certain set of preinstalled packages. The main upsid

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
On 13-07-22 08:23 AM, Abhayadev S wrote: any "dmesg"? the trimmed kernel is missing something? if nothing works, use Ubuntu and install the Studio packages without the realtime kernel On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Ryan Thompson mailto:ryandmsthomp...@gmail.com>> wrote: Fresh

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Abhayadev S
any "dmesg"? the trimmed kernel is missing something? if nothing works, use Ubuntu and install the Studio packages without the realtime kernel On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Fresh install. > On 2013-07-22 8:08 AM, "Abhayadev S" wrote: > >> did you do a fresh ins

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
Fresh install. On 2013-07-22 8:08 AM, "Abhayadev S" wrote: > did you do a fresh install or just distro upgrade? > > Regards, > Abhayadev S > http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Ryan Thompson > wrote: > >> I have been trying to get Ubuntu Studio 13.04 w

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Abhayadev S
did you do a fresh install or just distro upgrade? Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > I have been trying to get Ubuntu Studio 13.04 working now for about three > days. I was running Ubuntu 13.04 and the WIFI was

Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
I have been trying to get Ubuntu Studio 13.04 working now for about three days. I was running Ubuntu 13.04 and the WIFI was fine but since I've installed Studio, I have no WIFI. The switch is lit blue constantly now, even if I try to shut down or restart the WIFI. Can anyone help me out? -